Theory of (2+1)-dimensional fermionic topological orders and fermionic/bosonic topological orders with symmetries

Tian Lan, Liang Kong, and Xiao-Gang Wen
Phys. Rev. B 94, 155113 – Published 10 October 2016

Abstract

We propose a systematic framework to classify (2+1)-dimensional (2+1D) fermionic topological orders without symmetry and 2+1D fermionic/bosonic topological orders with symmetry G. The key is to use the so-called symmetric fusion category E to describe the symmetry. Here, E=sRep(Z2f) describing particles in a fermionic product state without symmetry, or E=sRep(Gf) [E=Rep(G)] describing particles in a fermionic (bosonic) product state with symmetry G. Then, topological orders with symmetry E are classified by nondegenerate unitary braided fusion categories over E, plus their modular extensions and total chiral central charges. This allows us to obtain a list that contains all 2+1D fermionic topological orders without symmetry. For example, we find that, up to p+ip fermionic topological orders, there are only four fermionic topological orders with one nontrivial topological excitation: (1) the K=1002 fractional quantum Hall state, (2) a Fibonacci bosonic topological order stacking with a fermionic product state, (3) the time-reversal conjugate of the previous one, and (4) a fermionic topological order with chiral central charge c=14, whose only topological excitation has non-Abelian statistics with spin s=14 and quantum dimension d=1+2.

  • Received 28 August 2015
  • Revised 25 July 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.155113

©2016 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Tian Lan1,2, Liang Kong3,4, and Xiao-Gang Wen5,1

  • 1Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 2Y5, Canada
  • 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
  • 3Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
  • 4Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
  • 5Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

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Vol. 94, Iss. 15 — 15 October 2016

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